Ashmolean Museum

it’s definitely one of my favorite art museums in the UK, not only for its great collections but also the exhibition designs.

Thoroughly enjoyed our time at this Oxford city centre museum with a large eclectic collection ranging from European Pottery & Porcelain to Egyptian Mummies to local finds of ancient coins. A very spacious basement cafe allowed for safe social distancing. Sorry we booked too late to see the Young Rembrant exhibition but apparently it was superb.

The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest museum in Oxford and the oldest museum in the UK. The exterior of the museum is a typical classical architectural style. The interior space is not particularly large. This is also limited by early architectural technology. The exhibits are definitely incomparable to the British Museum, but there are also precious items that are not long-standing, and entering the museum is free.

Lots of Roman architecture outside, a few large columns are magnificent and there is a small staircase inside to climb the Dome sorghum to see the surroundings of Oxford University

The Ashmolean is the University of Oxford's museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683.

This is a free museum to visit. There is a donation box at the entrance of the museum, marked with the words £5, which is what visitors want to pledge. The map profile in the museum is also marked with the words £1, and you need to pay consciously to take it. The museum, which is claimed to be the second largest in the UK except the British Museum, was originally a purely private collection, and later presented the collection to Oxford University after winning over its ownership. The University of Oxford established the first university museum in world history in 1683, and today it is the oldest public museum in the UK, and of course the most important of the four university museums in Oxford. The whole museum is a four-story exhibition hall, and the doors in the hall doors are arranged in different categories, and they are a little bit interoperable. Visiting in this museum, it is difficult to miss the exhibition hall without a map. Fortunately, we basically have no bound goal of visiting the flowers. First through the promenade of the statues, enter the Egyptian exhibition hall, where many of the ancient Egyptian collections are said to be rich in the British Museum in London. We see ancient sculptures, the whole wall is moved back to the British Empire, and the madness of looting is evident. Of course, it may be because of these looting that day that the precious relics of today are well preserved. The mummies stored here are also said to be exquisite and good, and of course there are many unearthed relics such as pottery. In addition to Egypt, there are India, Greece and the Aegean Sea; In addition to ancient and modern art collections, in addition to unearthed cultural relics and folk art. In the collections from China, there are large famous paintings in addition to porcelain, bronze and other cultural relics, and even cigarette boxes depicting Peking Opera Facebook. On the wall is a 1983-era print, which is written in four Chinese characters, "Strong in the Picture", which is "Jiang" without the local characters. Such a painting and calligraphy hanging in such a foreign museum seems a bit out of place. In addition to the collections displayed by the country, there are also classified exhibition halls, including coin collections, violins, glass ceramics, precious metal crafts and other exhibition halls have a rich collection of exhibits. In the coin collection hall, we see ancient Chinese mints, as well as coins in India, Greece, Rome, Islam, Britain and the European Union, among many countries. In the exhibition hall, we still saw the first time Indian national painting, although it is a simple animal painting, but the exaggerated brush coordination color still gives some impression. Unconsciously in the Ashmolean museum for three hours, this is still a horse and a flower view, the whole museum is really rich in collections.